BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) - A southwestern Illinois sheriff recruited by the national Democratic Party to challenge a first-term Republican congressman in the district that includes Jefferson County has declined the offer.

Salem Police make arrests for aggravated domestic battery and DUI. Sandoval Police arrested man on two counts of aggravated domestic battery. Loud music complaint in Salem leads to arrest of man wanted in Union County for aggravated battery and domestic battery.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois has entered its second month without a state budget, and there's no indication that summer's dog days will present any new opportunities for a breakthrough between Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and majority Democrats.

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An unattended bag leads to an evacuation at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
On Saturday, a portion of Terminal 1 ticketing at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport was briefly evacuated when an unattended bag was swabbed for explosive material and tested positive in preliminary tests.
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Sensitive sites across the United States are vulnerable to attack by store-bought drones, according to a new assessment by the Department of Homeland Security office in charge of sharing threat information with first-line personnel.The DHS "intelligence assessment" does not cite any actual or known drone-related threa ...

Protesters in Cincinnati hold a vigil to remember the victim of a police shooting.
Chants of "I am Sam DuBose" were heard in Cincinnati on Friday night as hundreds came together for a vigil and rally to remember Sam DuBose, a black man who was shot and killed by Ray Tensing, a white police officer, during a traffic st ...

California is in a state of emergency as wildfires rage on.On Friday, California Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency as firefighters continue to battle nearly two dozen wildfires. Daniel Berlant, a Cal Fire spokesman, said nearly 9,000 firefighters are on the front line."Right now, our largest fire that con ...